Crow

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place in English literature

...with his first collection,
The Hawk in the Rain (1957), Hughes captured the ferocity, vitality, and splendour of the natural world. In works such as
Crow (1970), he added a mythic dimension to his fascination with savagery (a fascination also apparent in the poetry Thom Gunn produced through the late 1950s and ’60s). Much of Hughes’s...